Yale University Art Gallery. The Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
It holds Night Café, the iconic painting by Vincent van Gogh which depicts the interior of a café in Arles, France, where the artist spent several months in 1888. It also has Titian's Portrait of a Man with a Blue Sleeve, considered one of the greatest paintings of the 16th century.
Although all cultures and periods are represented, the gallery emphasizes early Italian painting, African sculpture, and modern art. The Yale University Art Gallery is the oldest university art museum in the western hemisphere.
The gallery was founded in 1832, when patriot-artist John Trumbull donated more than 100 paintings of the American Revolution to Yale College and designed the original Picture Gallery. This building, on the university's Old Campus, was razed in 1901.
A Tuscan romanesque building, designed by Egerton Swartwout, was built in 1928. The gallery's main building was built in 1953, and was among the first designed by Louis Kahn, who taught architecture at Yale. In December 2006, a renovation of this building that returned many spaces to Kahn's original vision was completed by Polshek Partnership Architects. The renovation of the Kahn building was part of a larger renovation and expansion project that began in 1998.
It holds Night Café, the iconic painting by Vincent van Gogh which depicts the interior of a café in Arles, France, where the artist spent several months in 1888. It also has Titian's Portrait of a Man with a Blue Sleeve, considered one of the greatest paintings of the 16th century.
Although all cultures and periods are represented, the gallery emphasizes early Italian painting, African sculpture, and modern art. The Yale University Art Gallery is the oldest university art museum in the western hemisphere.
The gallery was founded in 1832, when patriot-artist John Trumbull donated more than 100 paintings of the American Revolution to Yale College and designed the original Picture Gallery. This building, on the university's Old Campus, was razed in 1901.
A Tuscan romanesque building, designed by Egerton Swartwout, was built in 1928. The gallery's main building was built in 1953, and was among the first designed by Louis Kahn, who taught architecture at Yale. In December 2006, a renovation of this building that returned many spaces to Kahn's original vision was completed by Polshek Partnership Architects. The renovation of the Kahn building was part of a larger renovation and expansion project that began in 1998.
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